Inching
our way out of ancient times and slowly putting superstition on the back burner
is one tiny step in the right direction with California's abandonment of Proposition
8.
California has become the 13th state to get out of the dark ages and finally legalize gay marriage. The fact that Proposition 8 was even introduced in 2008 was ludicrous. Of course big money talks. Frank Schubert, strategist for Proposition 8, helped the organization Protect Marriage raise more than $5 million in donations to fight for Proposition 8.
Alan C. Ashton, the grandson
of a former president of the Mormon Church personally donated $1 million to
Protect Marriage and aid in the passing of Proposition 8 according to the
article "Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban
on Gay Marriage" by Jesse
McKinley and Kirk Johnson, Nov. 14, 2008 on the web page http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/us/politics/15marriage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
Personally, if I could afford to shell out $1 million and expect nothing in return, it would be to something useful such as a children’s hospital or an educational system, but certainly not to fight for a primitive belief.
Gay marriage has been legal for more than 220 years if you go by the first amendment in the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion; exact wording in the first amendment written on Dec. 15, 1791. I'm fed up with the lame argument that God says it's (being gay) wrong, the Bible says so. That doltish dispute was actually a good argument about 2500-years ago for approximately ten minutes.
A very
large percentage of people who oppose gay marriage are the religious, using the
Bible for their convenience. If the U.S. follows God’s word (one nation under
God; in God we trust), then rape is OK. Deuteronomy
22:28-29; If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not
engaged, he must pay 50 pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the
young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce
her. No mention of the woman having a say if she wants to marry her rapist or
not!
As a whole, the world, especially the U.S. is living in the ancient past. To this day, 37 states are way behind the times. Why has the Constitution been written if it's not going to be used? Oh yea, money, lots of it going to lobbyist who govern everything with the almighty dollar. There are also the people who refuse to grow up and embrace diversity while clinging to prehistoric words and beliefs, thus dividing the world into a chaotic cocktail mixed by the business demons of the world.
